- Family raking day / Not only does this make my job easier this fall, but it was a couple hours of playful fun with my wife and son in the November, 70-degree sunshine.
- Unprompted & random "I-love-you-Daddy's" / Add to the half-pint words of affection the side of a half-pint head pressed up to the side of mine and a slight grin full of half-pint joy...it makes my heart smile. Nearly as enjoyable are the similar "I-love-you-Mommy's".
- Yahoo internet radio / Usually I can deal with the commercial interruptions that I can't skip because I used all my "skips" on the previous 2 or 3 commerical interruptions. And, I can listen to a variety of musical pleasures, like "Best of the 80's"; "Class Reunion 1997"; "Praise & Worship"; "Blues"; "Classical Standards"; "Jungle-Drum & Bass"; or "Oldies"...
- Making Christmas wish lists / It's the feeling of shopping without spending $1. (Yes, there occassionally is an exception to the "without spending" clause.) And, it's just another way that Christmas infects the pre-Christmas (even pre-Advent) season with hope...albeit a hollow, consumeristic version of hope.
- Jumper cables / You know what they're for. Yes, we had to use them this week. Enough said.
- "I don't wanna go home. I want to visit someone else." / This statement of JT's occurred after he helped me do a pastoral visit with an elderly woman who was in the hospital. I was proud that, though he was shy, he wasn't intimidated by her bruises and general hospital-stay disshoveledness. I was proud when it was apparent that his presence and interactions brought an extra amount of joy to her day. But then when I was at the end of my day & ready to do something "for me", I was blessed when this 3-year-old soul said he could do more of it. (BTW, this episode occurred minutes before the previous "jumper cable" episode.)
- Chili's "2 for $20" / We get an appetizer (for us it's always eat chips & dip), 2 entrees, and a dessert to share. Alison always gets two meals out of her entree. Thus, for this Donoho duo, it is actually "3 for $20"!
Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
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